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Eminem has made it clear to his fans that if they support Donald Trump, they shouldn’t bother supporting the rapper.

In a blistering freestyle rap titled “The Storm” that’s been heralded as his return to relevance – the video is set to top 10 million views on YouTube following about four years out of the spotlight for the star – Eminem slammed Donald Trump and rejected any fans that support the President in a four-minute video that aired at the BET Awards this week.

“Any fan of mine who’s a supporter of his, I’m drawing in the sand a line,” he raps.

“You’re either for or against, and if you can’t decide who you like more and you’re split on who you should stand beside, I’ll do it for it for you with this. F*** you,” he says, giving the finger to the camera.

“The rest of America, stand up,” he continued. “We love our military and we love our country, but we f***ing hate Trump.”

In the lyrics of The Storm, the Lose Yourself rapper is visibly angered as he takes Trump to task over his handling of the crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, and the President’s treatment of NFL players that got down on one knee during the American National Anthem at games to support the Black Lives Matter movement.

But this is his form of distraction

Plus, he gets an enormous reaction

When he attacks the NFL so we focus on that

Instead of talking Puerto Rico or gun reform for Nevada

All these horrible tragedies and he’s bored and would rather

Cause a Twitter storm with the Packers

Later, he raps:

Now if you’re a black athlete, you’re a spoiled little brat for

Tryina use your platform or your stature

To try to give those a voice who don’t have one

He later adds:

F**k that! This is for Colin, ball up a fist!

The line is referring to Colin Kaepernick, the NFL player that started the ‘take the knee’ movement. The football player later tweeted “I appreciate you, Eminem”.

In the past Eminem has been held up as a symbol of the white working class in America, so the song will undoubtedly lose him some fans in middle America.

But he’s also likely to gain news fans in those that recognise the significance of the one of the most successful white recording artists in the country standing with black Americans at a time of immense racial tension and unrest in the US.